Disable ipv6 in Aria operation

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Steps to disable all IPv6 related services / configs on Aria Operations appliances.

Environment

VMware Aria Operations 8.x

Resolution

Please follow the steps below to modify the configuration then reboot all Aria Operations nodes in the cluster.

1. Follow the procedure in Snapshot Creation in VMware Aria Operations to take cluster offline then create snapshot for each Aria Operations node in the cluster;

2. Run these commands on the Aria Operations cluster nodes one by one.

    
   Disable IPv6 for sendmail:

   sed -i -e '/^[^#]*O DaemonPortOptions=Addr=::1,Port=smtp,Name=MTA,Family=inet6/s/^/# /' /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

   Disable IPv6 for ntp:

   sed -i -e '/restrict -6 ::1/s/^/# /' -e '$a\interface ignore wildcard' /etc/ntp.conf

   Disable IPv6 at kernel:

   sed -i '/^photon_cmdline/ s/$/'" ipv6.disable=1"'/' /boot/photon.cfg
   
   Reboot the node from the command line or from the vCenter.
   
   

3. Take the cluster online after all nodes rebooted